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ADP: Mountain region posts strongest employment growth

September 11 2013

Private-sector employment increased on a seasonally adjusted basis in August in all nine U.S. Census Bureau divisions, according to ADP’s monthly regional employment report. Additionally, all 29 U.S. states tracked by the report, plus the District of Columbia, recorded gains in August.

“During the month of August, the Mountain region, which includes Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah among other states, showed the strongest monthly private sector job growth rate among U.S. Census Bureau regions,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, senior director of the ADP Research Institute. “While growth held steady last month in a few large states, such as New York, Texas and Florida, California’s monthly job growth rate weakened. Together, these four states and Illinois were responsible for generating more than a third of all new private sector jobs in August.”

Texas, Florida New York, California and Illinois posted the largest job gains during the month; Idaho recorded the highest percentage increase at 0.38 percent.

Jobs added, by state:

Alabama: 1,630, +0.11 percent

Arizona: 5,600, +0.26 percent

California: 11,400, +0.09 percent

Colorado: 5,710, +0.29 percent

Connecticut: 510, +0.04 percent

Florida: 13,790, +0.21 percent

Georgia: 5,810, +0.17 percent

Idaho: 1,970, +0.38 percent

Illinois: 8,010, +0.16 percent

Indiana: 7,580, +0.30 percent

Kentucky: 2,440, +0.16 percent

Maryland: 4,870, +0.23 percent

Massachusetts: 2,800, +0.10 percent

Michigan: 4,350, +0.13 percent

Minnesota 2,870, +0.12 percent

Nevada: 3,380, +0.33 percent

New Jersey: 4,770, +0.14 percent

New York: 13,230, +0.18 percent

North Carolina: 5,820, +0.17 percent

Ohio: 6,130, +0.14 percent

Oregon: 1,470, +0.11 percent

Pennsylvania: 4,030, 0.08 percent

South Carolina: 3,410, +0.22 percent

Tennessee: 5,210, +0.22 percent

Texas: 19,720, +0.21 percent

Utah: 2,600, +0.25 percent

Virginia: 4,140, +0.13 percent

Washington: 4,870, +0.21 percent

Washington D.C.: 710, +0.14 percent

Wisconsin: 2,760, +0.11 percent

ADP and Moody’s Analytics Inc. derived the report from an anonymous subset of about 406,000 U.S. business clients, which employ more than 23 million U.S. workers.

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